Re: General semantics

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> It seems like the "big brown book" is the bible of the ORM faith.
*Faith* is the right word. Science is a different matter.

> Looking at the TOC, I see that in the field of constraints, the book> distinguishes between uniqueness constraints, value constraints,> subset constraints, equality constraints, exclusion constraints, ring> constraints, join constraints, ...

Having tried for more than 30 years to discard RM, OO crowd is now
reinventing (attempting to) RM. In other words 30 years of OO
*inquisitiveness* has produced quite an achievement !
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